Pyros

Pyros
Pyromaniacs have developed a nickname of pyros, however, pyromaniacs was developed from Greek’s word pyr: meaning fire. So, obviously a pyromaniac has to do with fire. Yay, fire!(: Pyromaniacs use fire to induce euphoria or happiness often on institutions of fire control. This disorder goes beyond the love of fire and turns into impulsive control disorders, that’s what pyromaniacs have, an impulsive control disorder. It usually occurs and starts between the ages of 7 and 15. However, it is rare to come across someone who has a strong passion to start fires, less than one percent around the world is what studies seem to find. Even a more rare form of the disorder are children who develop it as early as the age of three! Adolescents arrest for arrson, you’d assume pyromaniacs would be the case, wrong! Only a small portion of them actually have it, they just have a love for fire(not to the extremes, like me, I mean I love fire, but I don’t have a super strong obsession for it, it’s just cool) or trouble. The pyromaniacs are 90% male and only 10% female (easy math that I know you could have done in your head, but your getting it anyways :D ). Common causes of pyromania can be broken down to two groups: individual and environmental. Individual as in: personal problems like feeling they need to be drastic to get attention or have past charges of crimes, revenge, or just because of social issues. Now what is meant by environmental is: neglect, physical or sexual abuse in earlier parts of their lives, and seeing adults light fires and be around fires as a relief of stress when they were developing. Something to separate the pyros from those who have no special relation to fire and just happen to do it for a criminal purpose or an emotional motif, symptoms. The first symptom would be they purposely set fires on more than one occasion, and before they do they face an emotional build up. When the spark goes off and a fire ignites a person suffering from pyromania will suddenly grow interest and fascination and may also experience pleasure, gratification, or relief. A build up of stress and emotion is often evident and seen in teens towards family and friends, would also be a symptom. So, if someone’s lifestyle consists of sudden interest in something where fire is found, experience pleasure, and tend to be overall happy except with stress and emotion build up towards family and friends, they may be a pyro themselves. Therapy is usually the treatment for pyromaniacs, but remember, fire is not a toy- it’s just really cool!

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromania